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At this point, I don’t think a whole lot of people know that song. “I think some day that may become a classic. “I think it’s a really, really beautiful and haunting melody,” he says. If he senses there’s a large group of Jews in the showroom, or if people ask for it, then he’ll play it. brings his popular holiday show to the Golden Nugget on Saturday, it’ll be a show-time decision whether he’ll include the song in his set. Gorelick, who’s Jewish, did include one Hanukkah song on “Miracles.” Rather than cover one of the very few familiar Hanukkah songs - the best-known is “The Dreidel Song” - Gorelick teamed up with Afanasieff to compose “The Chanukah Song,” not to be confused with Sander’s song, which shares the same name. Other than Adam Sandler’s comedy-novelty “The Chanukah Song,” which he recently updating for the fourth time, songs that celebrate the Jewish winter holiday are few and far between. It’s not just Christmas songs that are in short supply. “It’s the Mariah Carey song ‘All I Want for Christmas is You.’”īut beyond that song, he says, there really appears to be little interest from composers to write Christmas or holiday songs like there’s been in the past. “One of my friends, Walter Afanasieff, was one of the co-writers of the latest song that to me has become a Christmas classic,” he explains.